Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-05
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From the Buffalo Courier.
In the course Of ID personal abuss Of Prcsi.
dent Cleveland the New York Tribune the
other day made the following statement,
which is being reproduced by Republican
papers In oil parts Of the country:
"The old yarn about Mr.. Cleveland stay.
Ing home from the war to care for . widow ed
mother 10 doing great service In Mugwump
papers just now. Tho Hon. Lewis L. Allen,
Of Buffalo, Mr. Cleveland's uncle, who cared
the yarn long ago lie 10 authority for the
statement that Mr.. Cleveland's two brOshers
who served In the army cared for the mother,
instead OF Grover, who remained at home"
Tho foregoing paragraph was shown 70 Mr..
Allen yesterday. Amer reading u he de.
clsred with emphasis +" never said any
such thing. What an Internal lie Grover
remained at home and did take care of his
and Cecil, were In the army. Grover wss .
good, atfectionate son. SO far as I ever
knew or could judge he was all that His
mother and sisters lived ct Holland Patent
and he saw that they were made com torta
bla How much money he gave hts mother
Of course don't know. That was none Of
my business He told me he went 70 50
theD, and l haven't doubt he did It His
sisters were here in Buffalo moro or less
"These gapers are telling stories about mo
that sre utterly false piece came out in the
Tribune lsst winter, and was copied into the
Express here, in which II was stated that
while 1 WAS In Albany, or stopped there, one
OF their reporters came to me and talked to
me about MIR. Cleveland. There wasn't q
word of truth in It from beginning to end.
never saw any Tribune reporter. The Ir,.
bune said Growers mother WAS my sister,
That Is no such thing. She was an entire
stranger 70 me- Mr.. Cleveland WAS the son
OF . brother OF my wife That 10 how We are
related. His father was a clergyman, and
pIor oil his life, a. most cler = men ara He
had nine children and had to struggle along
hut he was one OF the most upright men
ever knew In my life There Is Q great deal
of talk about q rover's low origin and all that
sort OF hslderdash. Its all nonesense. The
family vas good one, just a. respectable a.
any family In the country. His sisters were
- worthy - any women i ever knew, we'll
born, we'll related. we'll educated"
The following paragraph from the Kingston
Freeman WAS also SHOWN to Mr.. Alien
Democratic newspapers have been tell
ing in q very pathetic style Of Grover Cleve-
lands devotion to his aged mother. which
| induced him to stay ut home aud support
/ her, while his two brothers entered the ser.
| vice Of their country - soldiers. II the tale
l were true 1t would serve very well as an
excuse But the Hon. Lewis F. Allen, the
i uncle OF the president, who took him in and
cared for him when he came to Buffalo, has
| said repeatedly that 1t IL not true. On the
/ ether hand, he states that the mothers sup.
port was furnished entirely by the sons who
Joined the army, and that Grover did moth.
ing for her. He had neither patriotism nor
tlisl feeling. 1t was this same uncle " he
told OF Clevelsud's frequent visits tn the
head quarters of the yellow fever and Greek
lire plotters on the Canada side OF the
/ Niagara during the war. Mr.. Allen, who
iss Republican, appears to have loved hi.
/ nephew, but he " damned his treason"
Commenting on these statements MIR. Allen
said ~ never said any such thing. Wbst
do they want to say such things about mt
forr They make oil this trash up. haven'l
said word OF the sort The simple tact ID
the brothers, Cecil and Frank, went into the
army and probably remained in the army
until the close OF the war. A year or two
later the brothers started hotel in Nassau,
West Indies They spent their winters there,
| and In the summer they came home to Hol
land Patent Frank was the business man
| OF the two, and he did spend considerable
| money in fixing up the house and furnishing
| It but Grover looked out for them we'll and
was anything but lacking in tlial feeling.
As to my telling about Mr. Cleveland's fre-
| quent visits to the head uarters of the yellow
lever and Greek fire plotters on the Csnads
side OF the Niagara during the war, l nevs
l said anything about II, because never knew
anything about II, and never heard that h
| visited them. Every word OF this stuff ha
| been made up l have never said q word Q
the kind, and don't want my name used q
saying these things about Mr.. Cleveland, 70
they are not true'